HP to adopt AMD's Opteron in servers

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Can HP kill off three in a row?

First Shane killed off Alpha, then he killed off PA-Risc in favor of Itanium. Is he now going to kill off Itanium in favor of the lower-cost Opteron?

I fail to see anything "innovative" about the current "in-crowd" at HP. While Carly's busy partying with Hollywood types, her henchwomen are busy shipping tens of thousands of jobs to India. While she's shopping for her next private jet, HP R&D is reduced to "me-too" products that just serve to show how non-inventive they have become.

HP, Compaq, and Digital were all great companies at one time, and we bought lots of great systems from all of them. Sadly those days are gone, and all that remains is a "celebrity" CEO and a branding campaign.

Our company has shifted more and more towards IBM in recent times, but not the IBM that I knew for the last 15 years. THIS IBM has cool stuff, from non-traditional angles, and they are willing to push the envelope and try new things. We have new blade server farms, SANs that actually work, and a honking great Linux-based customer database cluster that beat the old Sun/Oracle system on price, performance, AND stability.

HP can adopt Opteron if they want, but they'll continue to fall behind IBM no matter what.

Posted by: terry flores   Posted on: 01/26/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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